Dynamic diatom-bacteria consortia in synthetic plankton communities 

Y. Deng, M. Mauri, M. Vallet, M. Staudinger, R. J. Allen and G. Pohnert

Appl. Env. Microbiol. (2022)

 

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Resource spectrum engineering by specialist species can shift the specialist-generalist balance

C. G. Mills, R. J. Allen* and R. A. Blythe* 

Theoretical Ecology 1-15 (2019)

 

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Bacterial growth: a statistical physicist's guide

R. J. Allen and B. Waclaw

Reports on Progress in Physics  82, 016601 (2019)

 

 

 

Oxic-anoxic regime shifts induced by biogeochemical feedbacks in microbial communities

T. Bush, M. Diao, R. J. Allen, R. Sinnige, G. Muyzer and J. Huisman 

Nature Communications 8, 789 (2017)

 

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Assembly of microbial communities in replicate nutrient-cycling model ecosystems follows divergent trajectories, leading to alternate stable states

E. Pagaling, K. Vassileva, C. G. Mills, T. Bush, R. A. Blythe, J. Schwarz-Linek, F. Strathdee, R. J. Allen and A. Free 

Environmental Microbiology 19: 3374–3386 (2017)

 

 

 

Resource spectrum engineering by specialist species can strongly disfavour generalists

C. G. Mills, R. J. Allen and R. A. Blythe (submitted)

  

 

 

Challenges in microbial ecology: building predictive understanding of community function and dynamics

• ​​​S. Widder, R. J. Allen et al.

ISME Journal 10, 2557-2568 (2016)

• ​​​​This review article results from a 4-month programme "Understanding Microbial Communities" at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge University, which I co-organised in August-December 2014.

 

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Redox regime shifts in microbially-mediated biogeochemical cycles

• T. Bush, T. B. Butler, A. Free and R. J. Allen 

Biogeosciences 12, 3717-3724 (2015)

 

 

 

Competition for space during bacterial colonisation of a surface

• D. P. Lloyd and R. J. Allen 

J. R. Soc. Interface 12, 20150608 (2015)

 

 

 

Selection history affects the predictability of microbial ecosystem development​​E. Pagaling, F. Strathdee, B. Spears, M. E. Cates, R. J. Allen* and A. Free* 

ISME J. 8, 19-30 (2013) (*=equal contribution)

 

 

 

Oscillating microbial dynamics driven by small populations, limited nutrient supply and high death rates​

​B. S. Khatri, A. Free and R. J. Allen 

J. Theor. Biol. 314, 120-129 (2012)